: projects in progress

Multipurpose SkyLINK system for the City of Kiev, Ukraine

During 2003 the Excedence Ministry located in the City of Kiev, Ukraine, plans to set up a SkyLINK radio network which will serve a number of measurement tasks of the Ukrainian capital. Besides the need to install 10 GammaTRACER radio probes to survey the gamma level in a 20 km zone, in a next step the integration of six of Positron Technology's, Frankfurt - Ukraine, Kardon gate monitors are planned for integration into the network. Technically this will be possible due to Saphymo' new development of a Universal Telemetry Platform (UTP) which allows to integrate other sensors. A further requirement to also include sensors for gas analysis is currently checked. The project will serve as a model for other major cities in Ukraine.

NPP Ignalina plans for integration of further sensors into the SkyLINK network

Since the year 2000 the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant operates a SkyLINK network for radio transmission with a number of 24 GammaTRACER probes. The system ensures highest reliability and data integrity also at temperatures as low as -40 °C surveying a terrain in a 30 km zone around the plant. Ignalina NPP stated that due to design and fabrication of the system it provided the ability to install the equipment in a fast, easy and cheap manner. In the year 2000 the decision was taken under long-term cost-saving aspects. Due to the reliable, maintenance free system operation it is now planned to find more applications for SkyLINK in the frame of decommissioning works where further sensors for other measurement purposes can be integrated into the network.

Ukrainian NPP Yushno Ukrainska plans to operate a SkyLINK system

During 1999 the Ukrainian NPP Rovenskaja, Rovno, was equipped with a network of 40 GammaTRACER probes. Now Saphymo's joint venture company Positron Technology, Frankfurt, works on the contract for a SkyLINK radio transmission system on Ukrainian grounds. According to Ukrainian legislative rules a number of almost 60 probes are scheduled for implementation. 10 probes shall be located in the inner circle of the plant with extended measuring range, the other 50 shall survey an area up to 34 km around the plant. The system in Yushno Ukrainska will serve as a model for other Ukrainian NPPs to follow.